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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Rapebait" Frat disbanded for promoting sexual violence.
After the email blew up the internet, Peterson offered a sincere-sounding mea culpa, saying that "rapebait" was a nickname his frat bros had given him and that joking about sexual assault is very, very wrong indeed. Georgia Tech put ?KT on probation. Lesson learned, right?
Not really. According to GT's Technique, Peterson and his ilk carried right on acting like toddlers pumped full of testosterone after the incident last October, and after an investigation, the school's administration concluded that Phi Kappa Tau engaged in a "pattern of sexual violence that
suggests a deep-rooted culture within the fraternity that is obscene, indecent and endangers women" in addition to providing alcohol to underaged members, like, constantly (in their defense, isn't that kind of what every frat does w/r/t alcohol?) Included in the school's investigation were actual minutes from fraternity meetings and emails circulated around the frat, which included beaucoup imbibing and joking references to drug and alcohol abuse and rape.
But there was also plenty of anti-woman stuff in Phi Kappa Tau's culture. Here, for example, are the lyrics to a song that pledges were made to sing both during pledge week and at the frat's Christmas party (which was the most depressing party in the world, probably). Georgia Tech got hold of these because the boy geniuses at Phi Kappa Tau sent all of this over email, thus leaving an easy to follow digital trail for school officials.
http://jezebel.com/infamous-rapebait-frat-disbanded-for-being-entirely-t-1558252895?utm_campaign=socialflow_jezebel_facebook&utm_source=jezebel_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
I'm not going to show the "jovial" rape songs they sang together,but it's seriously fucked up. Rape culture sucks.
TRIGGER WARNING:THERE ARE SONGS PERTAINING TO RAPE AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN THE ARTICLE.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Shut down the frat house and turn the building into a women's shelter, and make the national fraternity pay for all of the costs.
Enough of this crap!
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)The current generation is a legacy of the older generations.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)but I'd be in favor of it.
I don't like frats, in general, as you might be able to guess.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)They can do good, but too many examples of bad behavior exist to give any of them a free pass.
Dorian Gray
(13,496 posts)about exactly what SHOULD happen. I won't hold my breath for it to actually happen, though.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)I learned that on its website. That's something. But, it may be that the other chapters are doing similar things, but haven't been outed for it yet.
Dorian Gray
(13,496 posts)riqster
(13,986 posts)The perps need to suffer some sort of shame, pain, and humiliation: something that fucks their shit up to a sufficient degree that they are forced to look at themselves and realize what scum the lot of them are.
Otherwise, they will still be potential or actual sexual predators and violent criminals.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)washing their hands of it. Under the rug it goes.
riqster
(13,986 posts)Which is why it's not enough.
CrispyQ
(36,479 posts)Shame on any college that knows about stuff like this & doesn't do anything about it.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Horrific and beyond sick.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)They're sick. I had no idea sociopaths had their own frat.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)Anyone who would willingly sing that needs serious help.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)undeterred
(34,658 posts)where they cannot be deleted so that every potential employer and every potential girlfriend they ever have can see what kind of evil they thought was fun in their college years.
They are so into shaming. They need to be shamed.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Ohio Joe
(21,760 posts)You know... 'It's just frat boys having fun'... 'It's an isolated incident'... 'Hey, eventually something was done'... And on and on...
We all know the denial and excuses will come.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Last edited Fri Apr 4, 2014, 02:48 PM - Edit history (1)
a trigger warning because of the songs included in the article? I think I will.
Ohio Joe
(21,760 posts)It's not just shocking... It's outright murderous.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Solly Mack
(90,775 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)I made it about halfway through and had to stop
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)trigger warning seriously.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)But that's some psycho shit that would creep out de Sade himself!
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)a la izquierda
(11,795 posts)cui bono
(19,926 posts)counseling workshops for these young men to - I was going to say teach them but I think it's already at the point of rehabilitating them - rehabilitate them and teach them what a healthy relationship is and that women are people. Like an anger management class but much more than that.
It's at the point where every campus should have a mandatory class on this sort of thing to be taken the first year, preferably the first quarter/semester.
Who raises people like this???
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)after awhile the usual suspension+apology doesn't cut it anymore....
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)has songs like that. Sororities also. They are an exercise in offensiveness for offensiveness' sake, sort of like lowbrow juvenile misogynistic performance art. College-aged people often lack the awareness to realize exactly how crass they are.
The culture that creates this kind of insensitivity needs to be eliminated. Over time, I think it will be, but old cultures die hard.
exboyfil
(17,863 posts)Day (recruiting effort) for the school she will be attending in August. We promptly threw it in the circular file.
What happened when a notorious fraternity was finally closed down on campus at our other large university was that they just moved off campus and retained the living arrangement. I suspect the same will happen in this case.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)has songs like that and an even harder time imagining there are sororities gleefully singing songs about rape. Did you see the songs in the article? They're psychotic.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)but we sang songs just as bad. During Rush Week I visited nearly every fraternity on campus and, while I can't assert that every single one also had similar material in their repertoire, nearly all of them did. This was in the 80's during Ronnie's "Morning in America", so hopefully that kind of shit has diminished over time.
Granted, the sorority songs were more "bawdy" than rape-themed, but were still a bit squirm-inducing.
Maybe my campus was an exception?
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)"Morning in America" was practically an invitation to be an as whole.I hated the 80s.